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Social Group email notifications not working Issue Tools
issueid=27226 Thu 22nd Jan '09 12:37pm
Senior Member
Social Group email notifications not working
Emails from social groups not working

Email is poorly implemented for the social groups, you should be able to subscribe to ALL posts/messages within a group that you are a member of, but I can't even get what IS there to work.

I created a social group and then posted a new discussion. I then clicked on "Discussion Tools" within that discussion and selected subscribe and then email notification. I'm getting no email notifications.
Issue Details
Project vBulletin
Category Social Groups
Status Fixed (Closed)
Priority 3
Affected Version 3.8.1
Fixed Version 3.8.2
Users able to reproduce bug 12
Users unable to reproduce bug 0
Assigned Users Mike Sullivan
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Fri 23rd Jan '09 5:58am
Former Senior Developer, vBulletin
 
I can't reproduce this. I subscribed to a discussion, a reply was made, and I received an email.

Do you get regular thread subscription emails? The code flow is basically identical.
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Fri 23rd Jan '09 8:26am
Senior Member
 
OK....this may be the problem, I'm testing it now.

In my UserCP under options, I have all notifications turned off. That may be preventing me from getting them for the social groups even though I have subscribed and asked for email notification. If so, it is still a problem. I have it turned off under options because I have my forum set up in the admin panel so that I get emails of every post made in the forums. If I turn it on under CP Options, I get DOUBLE notifications.

I just turned on notification in my UserCP to see if that solves the problem but if it does, it is still not a solution because I don't want to keep it that way and get twice the email that I'm now getting. I would think that if you have it set in the admin panel for emails of all posts, this should also include the social groups or else checking email notification within the social groups should be independent of the "no notifications" in the UserCP.

I'll report back if it works with UserCP notifications turned on.
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Fri 23rd Jan '09 5:06pm
Senior Member
 
Well, I'm still not getting any emails from the social groups. If you can't duplicate it though, it is likely something on my end. I'm going to kill the social groups anyway until the notification issues are adequate. Thanks for your help.
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Sat 24th Jan '09 3:44am
AHG AHG is offline
Member
 
I faced the same issue, no email notification from social groups.
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Sat 24th Jan '09 5:18am
wii wii is offline
Senior Member
 
I have the same problem, all other mail functions work just fine.
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Sat 24th Jan '09 2:32pm
Senior Member
 
me too
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Mon 26th Jan '09 10:00am
Former Senior Developer, vBulletin
 
I just wanted to emphasize to the people posting in this report: we are talking about subscribing to a specific social group discussion, not an entire group. Is that what you are referring to as well?
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Mon 26th Jan '09 2:40pm
New Member
 
Hi,


I report this "bug" in http://www.vbulletin-germany.com/ 10 days ago. I can reproduce this bug in the both vB 3.8.0 BB's I have (the 3rd is an "old" 3.7.2 licence).

I never got an email notification if an answer of the social group worte. I tested this before I worte this post with my admin and my user-test-account. I set this in the UCP (PM + thread) and in the discussion. I got an email notification if i got an PM or a answer of a thread I worte, but i don't get an email if an other posted in the discussion I set to "immediate reply" (geman: "Sofortige Benachrichtigung per EMail").

In the UCP, a notice appears in "subscribed threads" for the tread who was got a post.


... I hope you understand me, I can better wrote german than english ...


Marc
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Tue 27th Jan '09 6:35pm
Senior Member
 
Quote Originally Posted by Mike Sullivan
we are talking about subscribing to a specific social group discussion, not an entire group. Is that what you are referring to as well?
Yes.
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Wed 28th Jan '09 7:05am
Former Senior Developer, vBulletin
 
Please reconfirm this with 3.8.1. If this still happens, please submit a ticket referencing this bug and ask for it to be assigned to me. I'll need FTP access and (preferably) 2 users that I can test this with (one to receive notifications, one to post messages).
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This petition for a change to Unconfirmed was accepted
Thu 29th Jan '09 7:33am
vBG.com Team
 
Guess it happens with specific permissions and this code in line 1523 of functions_socialgroup.php

Code:
	while ($touser = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($useremails))
	{
		// check user can view discussion
		$permissions = cache_permissions($user, false);
which should be


Code:
	while ($touser = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($useremails))
	{
		// check user can view discussion
		$permissions = cache_permissions($touser, false);
Thu 29th Jan '09 2:04pm
New Member
 
Hi!


Quote Originally Posted by Pogo
Guess it happens with specific permissions and this code in line 1523 of functions_socialgroup.php
*ggg*

I try it in my both vB's and ... it works!!!

Thank you very much!!!


Marc
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This petition for a change to Confirmed was rejected
Fri 30th Jan '09 7:53am
Senior Member
 
Quote Originally Posted by Realtime
Hi!



*ggg*

I try it in my both vB's and ... it works!!!

Thank you very much!!!


Marc
I can confirm this too, thanks pogo.
Mon 16th Feb '09 2:53pm
Member
 
THANK YOU for sharing this! I can't believe this has not been shared more widely, as I went through many a thread asking how to fix it, but none with a solution.
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Tue 17th Feb '09 5:05am
Former vBulletin Developer
 
This will be fixed in 3.8.2
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Sat 4th Apr '09 4:41pm
Member
 
Is this really fixed? I subscribe to a group with my test user profile and then post a discussion using my admin profile. But the test user subscribed to the group doesn't get a notification email. But I do receive PM's generally.
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Sun 5th Apr '09 9:33pm
Senior Member
 
This was fixed. If groups were created before 3.8.2 update, each user must to remove subscriptions from these groups and subscribe to them again (like explained in annoucement).

Group subscriptions which were created before 3.8.2 will not automatically send email notifications. These users can modify their existing subscriptions or resubscribe to enable email notification.
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Mon 6th Apr '09 6:26am
Former Senior Developer, vBulletin
 
This bug relates to describing to a specific discussion, not the entire group:
I created a social group and then posted a new discussion. I then clicked on "Discussion Tools" within that discussion and selected subscribe and then email notification. I'm getting no email notifications.
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Thu 28th May '09 6:46am
New Member
 
This will be fixed in 3.8.2
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Thu 28th May '09 10:25am
New Member
 
I assume you mean it will be fixed in 3.83? Because 3.82 is the current version.
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